Actor
Johnny Yong Bosch has come a long way from his work as one of the
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. He's developed into one of the best of
the new generation of dub actors, with major roles that had Katsucon
fans demanding that he perform their key lines - "love and peace" from
his Vash in Trigun, "Tetsuo" from his Kaneda in the second Akira dub.
But Bosch's breakthrough role may have been Claus in Last Exile,
because it showed a new range in his acting. "It was cool - it was a
chance for me to experiment with playing younger characters," Bosch
said at his Katsucon panel. "I thought the animation was really cool."
Claus was a departure for Bosch in another way, because it was his
first time dubbing a role where the original Japanese performance was
done by a female. "The Japanese was a chick (Mayumi Asano), and I said
`You think I sound like a chick?' " Bosch joked. More seriously, Bosch
said the Claus role was important because it was a step that made sure
he wouldn't be typecast as a fighting superhero.
A
previous step away from that typecasting was Bosch's role of Kiba in
Wolf's Rain. "Kiba was cool. At first I thought I couldn't play him
because he was so cool, but I did." And for those wondering about
Bosch's Vash performance, "I had a lot of fun with Vash because he was
crazy and goofy. I never knew what the story was - I was going along
with it, then I figured he had this past and he was acting goofy and
crazy because of it." Bosch still works in front of a camera, acting in
an independent action film that was finished a couple of months before
Katsucon, but he feels that dub voice acting is harder than onscreen
acting, even with the fighting scenes that Bosch often encounters. The
difference is that dub acting has to match action already animated,
which means fitting a line into the time of a character's lip flaps on
screen. "Sometimes I don't agree with the director, but I do it any
way. I do it by feel and I'll read it the way I want it, and then the
director will say `do it like this' in this cheesy way, and I'll do it
and they'll say `Perfect.' "
Actor
Johnny Yong Bosch has come a long way from his work as one of the
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. He's developed into one of the best of
the new generation of dub actors, with major roles that had Katsucon
fans demanding that he perform their key lines - "love and peace" from
his Vash in Trigun, "Tetsuo" from his Kaneda in the second Akira dub.
But Bosch's breakthrough role may have been Claus in Last Exile,
because it showed a new range in his acting. "It was cool - it was a
chance for me to experiment with playing younger characters," Bosch
said at his Katsucon panel. "I thought the animation was really cool."
Claus was a departure for Bosch in another way, because it was his
first time dubbing a role where the original Japanese performance was
done by a female. "The Japanese was a chick (Mayumi Asano), and I said
`You think I sound like a chick?' " Bosch joked. More seriously, Bosch
said the Claus role was important because it was a step that made sure
he wouldn't be typecast as a fighting superhero.
A
previous step away from that typecasting was Bosch's role of Kiba in
Wolf's Rain. "Kiba was cool. At first I thought I couldn't play him
because he was so cool, but I did." And for those wondering about
Bosch's Vash performance, "I had a lot of fun with Vash because he was
crazy and goofy. I never knew what the story was - I was going along
with it, then I figured he had this past and he was acting goofy and
crazy because of it." Bosch still works in front of a camera, acting in
an independent action film that was finished a couple of months before
Katsucon, but he feels that dub voice acting is harder than onscreen
acting, even with the fighting scenes that Bosch often encounters. The
difference is that dub acting has to match action already animated,
which means fitting a line into the time of a character's lip flaps on
screen. "Sometimes I don't agree with the director, but I do it any
way. I do it by feel and I'll read it the way I want it, and then the
director will say `do it like this' in this cheesy way, and I'll do it
and they'll say `Perfect.' "
